Early Islamic Iran - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Early Islamic Iran write by Edmund Herzig. This book was released on 2011-11-08. Early Islamic Iran available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How did Iran remain distinctively Iranian in the centuries which followed the Arab Conquest? How did it retain its cultural distinctiveness after the displacement of Zoroastrianism - state religion of the Persian empire - by Islam? This latest volume in "The Idea of Iran" series traces that critical moment in Iranian history which followed the transformation of ancient traditions during the country's conversion and initial Islamic period. Distinguished contributors (who include the late Oleg Grabar, Roy Mottahedeh, Alan Williams and Said Amir Arjomand) discuss, from a variety of literary, artistic, religious and cultural perspectives, the years around the end of the first millennium CE, when the political strength of the 'Abbasid Caliphate was on the wane, and when the eastern lands of the Islamic empire began to be take on a fresh 'Persianate' or 'Perso-Islamic' character. One of the paradoxes of this era is that the establishment throughout the eastern Islamic territories of new Turkish dynasties coincided with the genesis and spread, into Central and South Asia, of vibrant new Persian language and literatures. Exploring the nature of this paradox, separate chapters engage with ideas of kingship, authority and identity and their fascinating expression through the written word, architecture and the visual arts.
The Nativist Prophets of Early Islamic Iran
The Nativist Prophets of Early Islamic Iran - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Nativist Prophets of Early Islamic Iran write by Patricia Crone. This book was released on 2012-06-28. The Nativist Prophets of Early Islamic Iran available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Patricia Crone's book is about the Iranian response to the Muslim penetration of the Iranian countryside, the revolts subsequently triggered there and the religious communities that these revolts revealed. The book also describes a complex of religious ideas that, however varied in space and unstable over time, has demonstrated a remarkable persistence in Iran across a period of two millennia. The central thesis is that this complex of ideas has been endemic to the mountain population of Iran and occasionally become epidemic with major consequences for the country, most strikingly in the revolts examined here and in the rise of the Safavids who imposed Shi'ism on Iran. This learned and engaging book by one of the most influential scholars of early Islamic history casts entirely new light on the nature of religion in pre-Islamic Iran and on the persistence of Iranian religious beliefs both outside and inside Islam after the Arab conquest.
Cotton, Climate, and Camels in Early Islamic Iran
Cotton, Climate, and Camels in Early Islamic Iran - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cotton, Climate, and Camels in Early Islamic Iran write by Richard W. Bulliet. This book was released on 2009. Cotton, Climate, and Camels in Early Islamic Iran available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A boom in the production and export of cotton turned Iran into the richest region of the Islamic caliphate in the ninth and tenth centuries. Yet in the eleventh century, Iran's primacy ended as its agricultural economy entered a steep decline. Richard W. Bulliet advances several provocative explanations, for example that the boom in cotton production paralleled the spread of Islam and that Iran's agricultural decline stemmed from a significant cooling of the climate that lasted more than a century. Substantiating his argument with innovative quantitative research and scientific discoveries, Bulliet first establishes the relationship between Iran's cotton industry and Islam and then outlines the evidence for what he terms the "Big Chill." He then focuses on a lucrative but temperature-sensitive industry of cross-breeding one-humped and two-humped camels, concluding with an unusual concatenation of events that had a profound and long-lasting impact not just on the history of Iran but on the development of the world.
Iran in the Early Islamic Period
Iran in the Early Islamic Period - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Iran in the Early Islamic Period write by Bertold Spuler. This book was released on 2014-11-06. Iran in the Early Islamic Period available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents a translation of Bertold Spuler’s groundbreaking work on the transformation of Iran from a Persian Zoroastrian Empire to a province of the Arab Muslim Empire to a land divided by a number of Persian and Turkish kingdoms.
The Monumental Inscriptions from Early Islamic Iran and Transoxiana
The Monumental Inscriptions from Early Islamic Iran and Transoxiana - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Monumental Inscriptions from Early Islamic Iran and Transoxiana write by Sheila Blair. This book was released on 1992. The Monumental Inscriptions from Early Islamic Iran and Transoxiana available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book studies the surviving 79 monumental inscriptions from the Iranian world that date to the first five centuries of the Muslim era (ad 622-1106). Each is presented with photographs, drawings, transcriptions, translations and an extensive commentary, which explains the text in its larger historical and artistic context.
